"Financial Planning in the Cloud: Providing Agility, Collaboration, and Visibility" highlights the importance of planning, budgeting, and forecasting as essential tools to enable organizational success. Accuracy and agility in planning, budgeting and forecasting empower managers to make business investments and decisions with confidence. In the past, organizations often hesitated to place financial data in the cloud for fear of exposing sensitive data outside of the organization. But today's leading organizations are beginning to reverse course, and are more likely to deploy financial solutions in the cloud. This report examines current adoption rates and the benefits of utilizing a cloud solution for planning, budgeting, and forecasting. To obtain a complimentary copy of this report, visit: http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30410182&cid=8534&camp=2.

"ERP in Manufacturing: Creating a Hub for Visibility, Collaboration, and Innovation" indicates that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is the foundation of successful manufacturing organizations, and is essential for promoting standards throughout an organization, discovering potential efficiencies, and managing the front- and back-end processes of an organization. Additionally, ERP has evolved to become a hub for collaboration and continuous improvement, enabled by increased access to larger amounts of data to drive decision making. This report, based on a survey of 150 manufacturers, identifies Best-in-Class strategies for utilizing ERP to provide visibility to decision-makers and promoting collaboration across organizational boundaries. To obtain a complimentary copy of this report, visit: http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30410182&cid=8568&camp=2.

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